[Mailman-Users] Add or remove local accounts to a mailing list automatically

Brad Knowles brad at shub-internet.org
Sun Nov 9 08:25:09 CET 2008


George F wrote:

> How can I add the local accounts (i.e. the Linux system accounts) to
> that list? Can this list be updated automatically every time I add or
> remove a local account?

There aren't any standard tools for this sort of thing, but it shouldn't 
be too hard to create a cron job that extracts the list of currently 
existing users and synchronizes their subscription via the standard 
command-line tools (see FAQ 4.09 at <http://wiki.list.org/x/z4A9>).

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